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Milagu (pepper) rasam is my favorite to eat during lunch especially during cold season. I had been making this rasam almost daily for the past 15 days or so to combat my son’s cold and sore throat due to coughing. It really works wonders if you have a bad

Recipe from Agnes Chang's 'I Can Bake' book Ingredients: 250g butter, softened 200g soft brown sugar. 4 eggs, lightly beaten 300g self raising flour, sifted 5 tbsp milk 6 tbsp nutella chocolate hazelnut spread 60g hazelnuts, chopped coarsely (I use peca

One fine day one of my friend asked me, ?How we-Indians got independence?? I said we fought, struggled and latter got the freedom. To this my friend said a story behind this fact that how we actually got the freedom from the Britishers. My friend said t

What do you make, when you should have gone grocery shopping yesterday , and hubby says "whats to snack on?" Hmmmm , well, I did a quick check of what I had on hand and came up with this idea. The possibilities are endless; tuck in a few chopped m

If you want a super-easy cake that people will rave about, Mandarin Orange Cake is the recipe for you! This is the cake to make when you?re in charge of taking a dessert to a potluck event. It?s easy to make, it travels well, and everyone is cra

I'm not sure how I came across this recipe but I think I found it on a blog via Tastespotting. But anyway, it sounded too interesting to pass up. The article below tells how this recipe came to be. http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/headlines/2010

This is tarako on pasta. One of my prefered pasta dish. You should really try it. You can buy salt-cured fish roe mentaiko and tarako . Well, names are interchangeable it seems. Actually tarako should be from cod fish, an mentaiko from pollock. Mos

Gooseberry rice is a new type of mixed rice which you dont do often. The taste of this would be similar to lemon rice..But has a lovely taste of the gooseberry. I love variety rices, you can check out my rice recipes right here , i have quite a few of th

Quite often we look to make simple and easy vegetable dishes. With the sweltering heat nobody wants to stay long in the kitchen. The need of the hour is quick and easy recipes to please our palate. Lunch/Dinner gets interesting with the various permutat

http://gayathriraj.blogspot.com Ingredients : Eggs : 4 (boiled) Onions - 1, finely chopped Oil - 2tbsp Popu (Tadka)- 1tsp Green Chillis - 2 Red Chilli Powder - 1tsp Dhaniya Powder - 1tsp Sesame Powder/Nuvvula Podi - 4tsp Pachi Kobbari, Coconut po

The other day, I was going through this wonderful website called 'WHFoods.org', that lists all the health foods in the world and was pleasantly surprised to find green peas there. The website says, that the peas have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory bene

The season of Indulgence is here. It is the perfect time of the year to dig into recipe books and bring out those spicy and sweet treats. For me there is always a reason to experiment with something sweet! During Diwali, a reader asked me to suggest

Ingredients: 1 cup chopped bhindi (Okra) ½ cup chopped capsicum ¼ cup chopped onion 2 tsp garlic paste 1 tsp garam masala 2 tsp red chili powder 1 tbsp dhania jeera powder (cumin seed and dry coriander seeds powder) Pinch of asafoetida (

Ingredients: 2 tbsp singoda flour (Water chestnut flour) 1 ½ cup milk 2 tbsp sugar Pinch of nutmeg powder Almond slices for garnishing Method: Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan, add singoda flour (Water chestnut flour) and

Arisiparuppu sadham was introduced to me by my friend Priya. She is basically from Coimbatore. In Tirunelveli, Thuvaramparuppu sadham ( Toor Dal Rice ) is famous. The main ingredients of both of the rices are same. Those are toor dal and rice. But the re

uscious plump strawberries so aptly represent the spring and summer in my opinion. Nature at its prime, vibrant and full while the strawberries are gorgeously plump, red, sweet and juicy, a delightful treat for the eyes and taste buds alike. The bright su

Coconut polenta chocolate cookies These cookies are really quick and easy to prepare, and they can be butter-free. I used oil instead of butter. As a result the cookies were more crumbly, like a short shortbread cookie. I also tried a batch with

This is a combination of Indian spices/masala with chinese sauces.This is really a amazing combination...i use to make this type of fried rices often with any available vegetables..this time i have more capsicum n a bunch of spinach in my fridge,so tried

Teriyaki buri (yellowtail). And 3 sides full of seaweeds. Even if I am not affected personally -nothing happened in Osaka, I can t feel unconcerned by the nightmare Japan is trapped in now. So many victims up there, and this scary nuclear acciden

One of my weaknesses is a good, chewy chocolate chip cookie. It s like my kryptonite. I m not proud of it, but I m pretty much defenseless around them, which is why I don t make chocolate chip cookies very often. Recently, though, I was thumbing through t

?Warning: this post is going to contain a lot of pictures. Because this recipe book is so cool. I honestly wish it was in better condition :( As I've mentioned before, I couldn't make it to my grandmother's funeral, so my mother packed up some of her

The shutter opens on tempura and sauce on a bowl of rice. It is a popular Gourmande eat-out. I m afraid that it was . I mean that s the first time I make mine, and I love it so much more that those they serve Well some shops make it good, but not at my

This cake fits in with any meal - either as a breakfast coffee cake, snacking cake for lunch, or topped with cream for dinner. The burst of red from the cranberries crunchy almond topping make it unique. It?s equally delicious hot or cold - but my pe

Living on the Central Coast of California, our change of seasons happens in a very subtle way. Ground snow doesn't happen in my part of California. Instead, our golden hills begin to show signs of life again with patches of bright green grass. In our b